December 10, 2010, 3:57AM

December 30, 2010, 4:23PM

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La. left, EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who grew up in the New Orleans area, St. Bernard head of the office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness John Rahim, far right, and St. Bernard council-at-large east Wayne J. Landry look at map and discuss their game plan for oil boom deployment for...

December 30, 2010, 4:23PM

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Brandon Leonard, left, and Josh Francois of Coastal Tank Cleaning of Morgan City, La. a sub-contractor of Resolve Marine Group out of Ft. Lauderdale deploy oil booms along Chef Menteur Bridge by Fort Pike in New Orleans across the Rigolets from St. Tammany Parish Saturday May 1, 2010. St. Tammany Parish Kevin Davis has secured...

December 30, 2010, 6:01PM

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La. left, EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who grew up in the New Orleans area, St. Bernard head of the office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness John Rahim, far right, and St. Bernard council-at-large east Wayne J. Landry look at map and discuss their game plan for oil boom deployment for...

December 30, 2010, 6:01PM

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Brandon Leonard, left, and Josh Francois of Coastal Tank Cleaning of Morgan City, La. a sub-contractor of Resolve Marine Group out of Ft. Lauderdale deploy oil booms along Chef Menteur Bridge by Fort Pike in New Orleans across the Rigolets from St. Tammany Parish Saturday May 1, 2010. St. Tammany Parish Kevin Davis has secured...

July 25, 2012, 1:35PM

December 28, 2012, 11:58AM

A still image of the cap atop the BP Macondo well, from a mid-December 2012 video survey for leaking oil at the wellhead and the nearby site of wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon drillship on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

January 22, 2013, 6:13PM

There continues to be no evidence that harmful levels of chemicals from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill are in seafood, but initial study results show that former spill cleanup workers are carrying biomarkers of many chemicals contained in the oil in their bodies, and women and children along Louisiana's coast are reporting health effects believed linked to oil.... Full story »

January 28, 2013, 5:46PM

U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance will hold a hearing Tuesday on whether to accept a guilty plea agreement by BP that requires the company to pay $4 billion in fines and other payments to settle criminal charges -- including felony manslaughter -- stemming from the disastrous 2010 Gulf oil spill and the and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.... Full story »

March 26, 2013, 5:00PM

The Transocean executive who led the Swiss-based company's internal investigation into the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster testified Tuesday that the drilling rig was "in really good shape" before the accident, as the company's lawyers worked to poke holes in previous testimony that blamed the rig owner for BP's Macondo well blowout. Bill Ambrose, Transocean's director of special projects, testified... Full story »

March 27, 2013, 2:08PM

A Halliburton engineer who was onboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the days before it caught fire and exploded in the Gulf of Mexico testified Wednesday that he was concerned when BP cut back on the amount of equipment used to keep the drill pipe centered in the ill-fated Macondo well as the cement was poured, but did... Full story »

March 27, 2013, 2:37PM

Responding to a BP motion asking a federal judge to sanction Halliburton for not turning over potentially damaging evidence in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill trial, Halliburton on Tuesday accused BP of "finger pointing" and looking to "create a mid-trial sideshow to divert attention away from its own egregious acts and omissions" that led to its Macondo well... Full story »

April 10, 2013, 5:28PM

Lee Lambert was onboard the Deepwater Horizon training to be a BP well-site leader when the drilling rig caught fire and exploded in the Gulf of Mexico nearly three years ago. "It was my job to be out there, to learn how these things were done," Lambert testified Wednesday in the 25th day of the sprawling civil trial. Lambert... Full story »

May 07, 2013, 5:43PM

The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, which is overseeing the multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and private claimaints, has now paid out more than $2 billion to businesses and individuals who lost money as a result of the 2010 oil spill, the court-appointed claims administrator said Tuesday. In total, the office has sent offers totaling $3.06 billion to 162,603 eligible claimants... Full story »

May 31, 2013, 3:09PM

Attorneys for the two BP rig supervisors charged with manslaughter in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster say the counts should be dismissed because they don't apply to conduct on a foreign-owned vessel operating outside U.S. territory, and that the men weren't responsible for maintaining or navigating the vessel, which exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico... Full story »

June 21, 2013, 4:09PM

For months, BP has complained that a Louisiana attorney who is administering its settlement with tens of thousands of Gulf Coast businesses and residents has made decisions that expose the company to what could be billions of dollars in fictitious claims arising from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now the court-appointed administrator himself is investigating... Full story »

June 27, 2013, 7:28PM

Determining how much oil was released from BP's runaway Macondo well during the 86 days crude flowed into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 will be a challenge, the federal judge overseeing the sprawling civil trial said during a status conference Thursday. "From what I'm hearing talking to counsel, that is not an easy task to calculate that," U.S.... Full story »